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Title	:	The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Author	:	Leonard Mlodinow
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 252 pages
Published	:	May 13th 2008 by Pantheon Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Science. Psychology. Mathematics. Economics. Business. Philosophy

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Esta apasionante lectura nos descubre la naturaleza de los procesos arbitrarios de la vida cotidiana y cambia para siempre la percepción que tenemos de ellos. En 1905 Albert Einstein publicó una impactante explicación sobre el movimiento browniano -el movimiento arbitrario de partículas- comparándolo con la clase de movimiento que se observaría en el caminar de un borracho. La comparación se convirtió desde entonces en una poderosa herramienta para entender el movimiento puramente arbitrario que, por definición, no tiene ningún modelo específico. En este nuevo libro, Leonard Mlodinow examina la ley del caminar del borracho en relación con la vida humana diaria, con las diversas decisiones que continuamente tomamos empujados por acontecimientos arbitrarios que, unidos a nuestras reacciones, influyen en la mayor parte de nuestra vida personal.

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Original Title:	The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
ISBN:	0375424040 (ISBN13: 9780375424045)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2009)

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I hadnt realised I had read this guy before, and remarkably recently. Euclid's Window The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace was a fascinating read and oddly enough, I was even reminded of it as I was reading this one and I still didnt put two and two together (an appropriate enough metaphor for books on mathematics) until I was well over half way through. They are very similar books presenting an entire field of mathematics to a non-mathematical audience from an historical

I have a math background and an interest in the mind and enjoyed reading books like Predictably Irrational and Thinking, Fast and Slow. Given Mlodinow's reputation as a physicist, I expected a reasonably sophisticated presentation, albeit one that did not require a heavy math background. I was prepared for the book to be basic and probably start with the rudiments of probability, but the presentation is SO basic that the title term "drunkard's walk" does not even occur in the book until page 176

I confess to math envy. I can understand general concepts and ideas if they're presented in verbal form. Show me a page full of numbers and  mathematical symbols and my brain freezes up like a sprinkler at the North Pole. That's why I find books like this one so helpful. Maybe it's not helpful, since I can finish a book like this and have no less arithmophobia than when I started, but at least I can wrap my head around the concept."The drunkard's walk" is a phrase that came into use in the 1930s

Fascinating book ... It was interesting how many people I spoke to about this get very passionate about randomness. Many people think acknowledging randomness is denying God.The book is a bit chatty, and needs to focus a bit more on errors people make with statistics in their personal lives ... but Mlodinow hit on an essential concept.I liked this lesson: that successful people are lucky, but that lucky people are persistent, flexible, and brave.

The Drunkards Walk is a book about randomness, a topic that most people, unless they happen to be mathematicians or have a strange fascination with statistics, probably dont think too much about. As a species, in fact, we generally prefer not to dwell on randomness, but rather to assume that we are in control of much more of our lives than we actually are. In this new book, physicist Leonard Mlodinow attempts to show why underestimating randomness is really not a good idea. He lays a foundation

I'll admit it. I like books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely. I liked Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts. I know many consider these books lightweight and pseudointellectual, and that a more incisive critical reader than I am would probably make mincemeat of them. But I find them entertaining and interesting, even if they don't always hold up to critical

If we were all unfeeling iRobots (floor cleaners) who respond to the random encounters in our lives by simply changing direction then the premise of this book is justified, for we would all follow our individual drunkard's walks to whatever probabilistic future awaits us. (view spoiler)[However taking this a step further, Leonard Mlodinow suggests that much of how our lives transpire is happenstance, defined by a supreme law of probability that governs what we experience and perceive as humans.